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The educator’s job—the role of education in society—is to ask, “Well, what is she like?” Instead of ignoring deficits, you have to accommodate them.
“weren’t women allowed to be sexist for the next two thousand years or so, until they’d evened up the score?”
― The Husband's Secret
― The Husband's Secret
“But there is another way to read them: horizontally. In a horizontal reading you read a story in one of the Gospels, and then read the same story as told by another Gospel, as if they were written in columns”
― Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible
― Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible
“from beginning to end. I call this approach “vertical” reading. You start at the top of the page and move to the bottom; start at the beginning of the book and move to the end. There”
― Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible
― Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible
“He needed distance. He needed space. He needed to forget his reality, which with the swing of a wrecking ball had gone through an inalterable seismic shift.”
― The Astonishing Life of August March
― The Astonishing Life of August March
“To engage in a historical study of the text, however, requires that you read and compare the texts carefully, down to the minute details.”
― Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible
― Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible
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